10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
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Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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